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Sometime around 2007, a friend told me that their sister had been in a car accident. I asked why, and they said she was texting. It blew me away that someone wo
by csours 3y ago
Sometime around 2007, a friend told me that their sister had been in a car accident. I asked why, and they said she was texting. It blew me away that someone would be texting and driving, that idea was not in my conceptual space before I heard that.
- rwmj 3y agoThat was illegal well before 2007. It was banned in the UK in 2003: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3015610.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3015610.stm
- csours 3y agoIt takes a while for the future to catch up to some people.
- qingcharles 3y agoAnd it's a lot harder to text and drive in the UK since the percent of automatics is so much lower. It's really hard to steer and change gears and text.
- dctoedt 3y ago> a friend told me that their sister had been in a car accident. I asked why, and they said she was texting. An extended-family member was killed that way — texting while driving, she ran into the back of a semi.